Haymarket District is a historic section of downtown

Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United Sta ...

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The area is a tourist attraction and home to the

Haymarket Park Hawks Field at Haymarket Park is a baseball stadium in the Haymarket District of Lincoln, Nebraska. It is less than a mile west of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (NU) and is the home venue of the school's baseball team and the Lincoln Sa ...

baseball stadium. Its historic significance has been recognized by being listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

as the Lincoln Haymarket Historic District. The name Haymarket originated from the 1867 market square where hay, and travel items, were marketed. The warehouses have been readapted as retail shops. Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket Lazlo's 1

Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket Huber bldg 1

Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket Harpham bldg 1

Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket Old Woods Bros bldg 1

The district held a

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event in 2018. Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket 8th and P NW corner 1

Buildings in the district were designed by various firms including

Fiske & Meginnis Fiske & Meginnis, Architects was an architecture firm partnership from 1915–1924 between Ferdinand C. Fiske (1856–1930) and Harry Meginnis in Lincoln, Nebraska. Twelve of the buildings they designed are listed on the National Register of Histor ...

and

Meginnis and Schaumberg Meginnis and Schaumberg was an architectural firm in Lincoln, Nebraska. The firm lasted from 1925 until 1943 when partner Harry Meginnis died. The firm designed several buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places and three building ...

. The historic J. C. Ridnour Building (1925) designed by

is in the district.

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File:Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket Lau bldg annex 1.JPG, Lau building File:Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket Lincoln Fixture bldg 1.JPG, Lincoln Fixture building File:Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket 824 P Street 1.JPG, Haymarket Bodega, 824 P Street File:Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket 7th St betw P,Q.JPG,

Lincoln Station Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincol ...

File:Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket Lincoln Drug Co bldg 1.JPG, Lincoln Drug Co. building File:Lincoln, Nebraska Haymarket Beatrice Creamery bldg 1.JPG,

Beatrice Creamery Beatrice Foods Company was a major American food processing company founded in 1894. In 1987, its international food operations were sold to Reginald Lewis, a corporate attorney, creating TLC Beatrice International, after which the majority of ...

building File:Veith Building (Lincoln, Nebraska) from SE 1.JPG, Veith Building (1884)

References

External links

Historic Haymarket website
{{Lincoln, Nebraska 1867 establishments in Nebraska Geography of Lincoln, Nebraska Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska History of Lincoln, Nebraska National Register of Historic Places in Lancaster County, Nebraska Unincorporated communities in Lancaster County, Nebraska Unincorporated communities in Nebraska

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